Things happen but no time to be wasted

For this week, the 20 yard fabric was finally cut into the length each section needs to be. I have a 44 inch extra after cutting up all of the pieces I need. So I have been use it to practice sewing straight lines. For the past practice, it was fairly short that I want to make sure I won't make mistakes when I sew the big piece. Here is the photo of the extra fabric I used to practice: the lines are approximately 54 inch long, which should help me when I sew the final piece. I drew straight lines with ruler first and then sewed following the lines.

According to the schedule I made for myself, I had to finish practicing the extra fabric on Friday, the 18th and sew the final piece together on the 19th. However, I was sewing one last practice line before doing the big one, and all of a sudden, the sewing machine broke down. The pedal wouldn't work. I tried unplug and googled online to see if I could fix it. It seemed that the pedal's wire may have been disconnected internally. I was having a mini panic attack because I want to follow my schedule of getting things done, especially the midterm is this coming week. Of course this would happen the last minute when everything was ready to be sewed together.....Anyway, I emailed Sarah and talked to Chinn, and I am just waiting. Tomorrow, the sculpture room will be open and maybe I will be able to get another pedal from the room. Meanwhile, I stayed in the studio and started the preparation of making the figure. I just blew it up to my life size and now I will have a standard model to create new design for screen-printing. Finger cross that tomorrow I will get to use the sewing machine and finish what was supposed to be done today.